大型纪录片《Wild China(美丽中国)》下载地址

BBC：WildChina美丽中国Wild China 美丽中国“Wild China”（中文名：《美丽中国》或《锦绣中华》），由英国BBC自然历史制作小组和中国中视传媒联合制作，拍摄时间历经3年，摄制组踏过了26个省、直辖市和自治区，拍摄了50多个国家级的野生动植物和风景保护区，86种中国珍奇野生动植物，还有30多个民族的生活故事。

从极北的赫哲人的生活、到桂林的船上人家，从中华民族标志性的长城、到西南边陲的苗族村寨，从青藏高原的藏羚羊，到秦岭的野生大熊猫，再到云南的亚洲象……不论是风土，还是人情，都在这6个小时的全景描述当中，用美丽的镜头呈现了出来。

即使是对很多中国人来说，也是第一次看到中国鲜为人知的一面。

第01集锦绣华南第02集云翔天边第03集神奇高原第04集风雪塞外第05集沃土中原第06集潮涌海岸影评:波澜壮阔的《美丽中国》文：铁志如果说BBC的《行星地球》产生了一次视觉上的震慑的话，那么,《美丽中国》就是一次心灵上的清洗。

一、国内外纪录片的角度对于这次记录首先说一下拍纪录片的角度，纪录片贯彻的宗旨就是客观，客观是纪录片本质，我国很多纪录片，尤其央视的格调与世界上其它国家迥然不同，其原因在于我们常常把纪录片拍成宣传片，当一个记录轻飘飘的煽情与美化时它也变的不足为信甚至让人反感，失去了呈现真实，揭露真相，纪录片也就变的没有力量。

有人说《美丽中国》肤浅时，我们想一下《迁徙的鸟》，全片几乎没有什么对白，但是震撼了全世界人的心，因为有太多看似简单的事物却被我们忽视了，纪录片的工作就是用心来观察周围任何看的到的事物。

就好像在中国，我们周围有很多的穷人、沿街乞讨乞丐，当他屈膝于你时，你可能和你女朋友厌恶地躲开了。

但是各个论坛都在发什么最震撼国人照片，这个时候你又被莫名其妙的感动了。

这不是在说现代人的虚伪和被蒙蔽，而是在说一个好纪录片不在于把一个事物诠释的多么全面与挖掘的多深，比方泱泱中国怎么可能用6集就展示它的美？六万集都不够，而是如何把与我们生活息息相关的东西深入浅出的表现出来。

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Wild China 美丽中国Finn: Today, we're travelling to the deepest parts of China.Jean: 今天我们要带大家长途跋涉去领略中国最壮观的地貌风景和最珍奇的野生动物。

Finn: I'm Finn and with me today is Jean.Jean: Hello.Finn: And today we're going to hear the inside story of a major TV series called Wild China.《美丽中国》是BBC和中国合作在2008年投资最大制作的自然纪Jean: WildChina录片，把中国各种丰富珍奇的野生动植物 wildlife 展现到了千万家英国电视观众面前。

InsertWild China was made by the BBC Natural History Unit and CTV in China. It took three and a half, four years, to make; and it explored the landscape, the people and the wildlife of China. Much of it had never really been seen before, and certainly much of it had never been seen by a Western audience.Jean: 刚才说话的这位是 Gavin Maxwell, 他在《美丽中国》这六集系列节目中担任其中两集的导演。

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(SCREECHING尖叫) rough-and-tumble扭打the alpha male男一号moccasin大毒蛇ambush埋伏venomous有毒的serpents大毒蛇pl.be spotted认出viper毒蛇high-yield产量很高的reap收割vt.be snapped up争购gangs帮pl. ~ of youngsters年轻人have fledged长羽毛vi. persist持续vi.plump and ripe丰满的uppermost最高的fish to fry另有要事be drained排水vt.be revealed揭露vt. carp鲤鱼smokehouse熏制室scales鳞pl.distinctly无疑地tundra苔原/冻土refuge庇护所exploitation剥削brink(悬崖/河流)边缘(SQUAWKING叫鸣)NARRATOR: The last hidden world,China.For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapesand surprising creatures.Chinese civilisation is the world's oldestand today, its largest,with well over a billion people.It's home to more than 50 distinct不同的ethnic种族的groupsand a wide range of traditional lifestyles,often in close partnership with nature.We know that China faces immense广大的social and environmental problems. But there is great beauty here, too.China is home to the world's highest mountains,vast deserts ranging from searing灼热的hotto mind-numbing乏味/厌烦的cold.Steaming冒蒸汽的forests harbouring rare稀有的creatures.Grassy多草的plains beneath vast horizons.And rich tropical seas.Now for the first time ever,we can explore the whole of this great country,meet some of the surprising and exotic外(国)来的/奇异的creatures that live here and consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of Chinato the remarkable引人注目的landscape in which they live.This is <Wild China>.Our exploration of China begins in the warm, subtropical亚热带的south.On the Li River, fishermen and birds perch暂栖on bamboo rafts木排/筏；a partnership that goes back more than a thousand years.This scenery风景/布景is known throughout遍及the world,a recurring再发的motif(作品)主题in Chinese paintings.And a major tourist attraction.The south of China is a vast广阔的area,eight times larger than the UK.It's a landscape of hills but also of water.(THUNDER RUMBLING(发)隆隆声)It rains here for up to 250 days a year,and standing water is everywhere.(THUNDER RUMBLING)In the floodplain河滩of the Yangtze River,black-tailed godwits黑尾鹬yùprobe探索the mud in search of worms.But isn't just wildlife that thrives兴旺in this environment.The swampy沼泽/泥泞的ground provides ideal conditionsfor a remarkable member of the grass family.Rice.The Chinese have been cultivating栽培rice for at least 8,000 years.It has transformed the landscape.Late winter in southern Yunnan is a busy time for local farmersas they prepare the age-old paddy稻田fields ready for the coming spring. These hill slopes斜坡of the Yuanyang County plunge猛冲nearly 2,000 metres to the floor of the Red River valley.Each contains literally简直thousands of stacked成堆的terraces地坪/梯田carved out by hand using basic digging tools.Yunnan's rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in China.Still ploughed犁, as they always have been,by domesticated驯化的water buffaloes,whose ancestors originated in these very valleys.This man-made landscapeis one of the most amazing engineering feats功绩of pre-industrial China.It seems as if every square平方inch of landhas been pressed into cultivation耕作.As evening approaches, an age-old ritual(宗教等的)仪式unfolds展开.It's the mating交配seasonand male paddy frogs are competing for the attention of the females.But it doesn't always pay to draw too much attention to yourself.The Chinese pond heron苍鹭is a pitiless predator食肉动物. (SQUAWKS)Even in the middle of a ploughed paddy field,nature is red in beak鸟喙and claw爪.This may look like a slaughter屠杀but as each heron can swallow only one frog at a time,the vast majority will escape to croak蛙鸣another day.Terraced paddies like those of the Yuanyang Countyare found across much of southern China.This whole vast landscape is dominated by rice cultivation.In hilly多小山的Guizhou Province,the Miao minority have developed a remarkable rice culture.With every inch of fertile肥沃的land given over to rice cultivation,the Miao build their wooden houseson the steepest and least productive hillsides山腰.In Chinese rural农村的life, everything has a use.Dried in the sun, manure肥料from the cow sheds棚will be used as cooking fuel.(WOMEN CHATTERING IN CHINESE)It's midday正午, and the Song familyare tucking into大吃a lunch of rice and vegetables.(SPEAKING IN CHINESE)Oblivious to the domestic家庭的chit-chat闲聊,Granddad Gu Yong Xiu has serious matters on his mind.Spring is the start of the rice growing season.The success of the crop作物will determine how well the family will eat next year, so planting at the right time is critical决定性的.The ideal date日期depends on what the weather will do this year,never easy to predict.But there is some surprising help at hand.On the ceiling of the Songs' living room, a pair of red-rumped尾的swallows, newly arrived from their winter migration,is busy fixing up last year's nest.In China, animals are valued as much for their symbolic meaningas for any good they may do.Miao people believe that swallow pairs remain faithful for life,so their presence is a favour恩惠and a blessing,bringing happiness to a marriage and good luck to a home.Like most Miao dwellings民居, the Songs' living room windowslook out over the paddy fields.From early spring, one of these windows is always left opento let the swallows come and go freely.Each year, granddad Gu notes注意/记录the exact day the swallows return.Miao people believe the birds' arrival predicts the timing时间安排of the season ahead.This year, they were late.So Gu and the other community elders have agreedthat rice planting should be delayed accordingly.As the Miao prepare their fields for planting,the swallows collect mud to repair their nestsand chase after insects across the newly ploughed paddies.Finally, after weeks of preparation,the ordained命令time for planting has arrived.But first the seedlings幼苗must be uprooted连根拔起from the nursery保育beds and bundled捆up ready to be transported to their new paddyhigher up the hillside.All the Songs' neighbours have turned out to help with the transplanting移栽.It's how the community has always worked.When the time comes, the Songs will return the favour.While the farmers are busy in the fields,the swallows fly back and forth with material for their nest.Many hands make light work.Planting the new paddy takes little more than an hour.Job done, the villagers can relax,at least until tomorrow.But for the nesting swallows, the work of raising a familyhas only just begun.In the newly planted fields, little egrets白鹭hunt for food.The rice paddies harbour tadpoles蝌蚪, fish and insectsand the egrets have chicks小鸟to feed.This colony(动/植物的)群体in Chongqing Province was established in 1996, when a few dozen birds built nests in the bamboo grove丛behind Yang Guang village.Believing they were a sign迹象of luck,local people initially protected the egrets and the colony grew.But their attitude changed when the head of the village fell ill.They blamed the birds and were all set to决心destroy their nests,when the local government stepped in干预to protect them.Bendy易弯的bamboo may not be the safest nesting place,but at least this youngster won't end up as someone's dinner.These chicks have just had an eel鳝鱼delivered by their mum,quite a challenge for little beaks.(CHIRPING鸣叫)Providing假如their colonies are protected,wading涉水birds like egrets are among the few wild creatureswhich benefit directly from intensive rice cultivation.Growing rice needs lots of water.But even in the rainy south,there are landscapes where water is surprisingly scarce.This vast area of southwest China,the size of France and Spain combined,is famous for its clusters群of conical圆锥体的hills,like giant upturned翻过来的egg cartons纸板盒, separated by dry empty valleys. This is the karst喀斯特, a limestone石灰石terrain地形which has become the defining image of southern China.Karst landscapes are often studded钉扣with rocky outcrops(岩石）露头, forcing local farmers to cultivate tiny fields.The people who live here are among the poorest in China.In neighbouring Yunnan Province,limestone rocks have taken over entirely.This is the famous Stone Forest,the product of countless years of erosion腐蚀,producing a maze迷宫of deep gullies小峡谷and sharp-edged pinnacles顶点. Limestone has the strange property性能that it dissolves in rainwater.Over many thousands of years water has corroded腐蚀its waydeep into the heart of the bedrock岩床/底itself.This natural wonder is a famous tourist spot,receiving close to two million visitors each year.The Chinese are fond of curiously-shaped rocksand many have been given fanciful想象的names.No prizes奖赏for guessing what this one is called!But there's more to this landscape than meets the eye.China has literally thousands of mysterious caverns洞穴concealed隐藏beneath the visible landscape of the karst.Much of this hidden world has never been seen by human eyesand is only just now being explored.(MAN SPEAKING CHINESE)For a growing band of intrepid勇敢的young Chinese explorers,caves represent the ultimate adventure.Exploring a cave is like taking a journey through time.A journey which endless raindrops will have followed over countless centuries. Fed by countless drips滴and trickles细流,the subterranean地下的river carves ever deeper into the rock.The cave river's course路线is channelled by the beds of limestone.A weakness in the rock can allow the riverto increase its gradient坡度and flow-rate,providing a real challenge for the cave explorers.The downward rush is halted when the water table is reached.Here the slow-flowing river carves tunnels地道with a more rounded profile轮廓. (MEN CHATTERING)This tranquil平静的world is home to specialised cave fishes,like the eyeless golden barb鱼钩.China may have more unique kinds of cave-evolved进化fishesthan anywhere else on earth.Above the water table,ancient caverns abandoned by the river slowly fill upwith stalactites钟乳石and stalagmites石笋.Stalactites form as trickling water deposits沉淀tiny quantities of rockover hundreds or thousands of years.Stalagmites grow up where lime-laden drips hit the cave floor.Oi!Whoo-hoo!So far, only a fraction片断of China's caves have been thoroughly prospected勘探and cavers are constantly discovering new subterranean marvels惊叹,many of which are subsequently接着developed into commercial show caves. Finally escaping the darkness,the cave river and its human explorers emerge in a valleyfar from where their journey began.For now, the adventure is over.Rivers which issue流出from cavesare the key to survival in the karst country.This vertical垂直的gorge峡谷in Guizhou Provinceis a focal焦点的point for the region's wildlife.This is one of the world's rarest primates,Frangois' langur长尾猴.In China they survive in just two southern provinces,Guizhou and Guangxi, always in rugged崎岖的limestone terrains.Like most monkeys, they are social creaturesand spend a great deal of time grooming梳理each other.Langurs are essentially本质上vegetarianwith a diet of buds叶芽, fruits and tender young leaves.Babies are born with ginger姜黄色的fur柔毛,which gradually turns black from the tail end.Young infants have a vice老虎钳-like grip, used to cling on to mum for dear life. As they get older, they get bolder and take more risks.Those that survive spend a lot of time travelling.The experienced adults know exactly where to find seasonal foodsin different parts of their range.In such steep terrain, travel involves a high level of climbing skill.These monkeys are spectacularly good rock climbersfrom the time they learn to walk.In langur society, females rule the roost栖息and take the lead when the family is on the move.One section of cliff悬崖oozes渗出a trickle of mineral-rich waterwhich the monkeys seem to find irresistible无法抗拒的.These days there are few predators in the Mayanghe Reserve自然保护区which might pose a risk to a baby monkey.But in past centuries, this area of south Chinawas home to leopards豹, pythons蟒蛇and even tigers.To survive dangerous night prowlers徘徊者, the langurs went underground, using their rock-climbing skills to seek shelter in inaccessible达不到的caverns. Filmed in near darkness using a night vision camera,the troop群clambers along familiar ledges岩架worn smooth by generations before them.During cold winter weather, the monkeys venture冒险deeper underground where the air stays comparatively相对地warm.At last, journey's end.A cosy niche壁龛beyond the reach of even the most enterprising有进取心的predator.But it's not just monkeys that find shelter in caves.These children are off to school.In rural China that may mean a long trek长途跋涉each morning,passing through a cave or two on the way.But not all pupils have to walk to school.These children are boarders寄宿者.(LAUGHING)As the day pupils near journey's end,the boarders are still making breakfast.In the schoolyard, someone seems to have switched开/关the lights off.But this is no ordinary playground, and no ordinary school.It's housed inside a cave!A natural vault穴of rock keeps out the rainso there's no need for a roof on the classroom.Zhongdong cave school is made up of six classes,with a total of 200 children.As well as the school, the cave houses 18 families,together with their livestock家畜.(COW MOOING哞哞叫)These could be the only cave-dwelling cows on earth.(PIG SQUEALS长而尖地叫)With schoolwork over, it's playtime at last.In southern China, caves aren't just used for shelter,they can be a source of revenue收入for the community.People have been visiting this cave for generations.The cave floor is covered in guano（海）鸟粪,so plentiful that 10 minutes' work can fill these farmer's baskets.It's used as a valuable source of fertilizer肥料.A clue to the source of the guano can be heard above the noise of the river.The sound originates high up in the roof of the cave.The entrance is full of swifts雨燕.They're very sociable birds.More than 200,000 of them share this cavein southern Guizhou Province, the biggest swift colony in China.These days, Chinese house swifts mostly nest in the roofs of buildings,but rock crevices裂缝like these were their original home,long before houses were invented.Though the swifts depend on the cave for shelter,they never stray走失further than the limits of daylight,as their eyes can't see in the dark.However, deep inside the cavern,other creatures are better equipped for subterranean life.A colony of bats is just waking up,using ultrasonic超声波的squeaks to orientate定位themselves in the darkness. Night is the time to go hunting.Rickett's mouse-eared bat is the only bat in Asiawhich specialises in catching fishes,tracking them down from the sound reflection of ripples涟漪on the water surface.This extraordinary behaviourwas only discovered in the last couple of years,and has never been filmed before.If catching fish in the dark is impressive,imagine eating a slippery minnow鲦鱼with no hands while hanging upside down. Dawn over the karst hills of Guilin.These remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapesto the mildly acid waters of the Li River,whose meandering蜿蜒而行course over eons千万年of timehas corroded away their bases until only the rocky cores remain.The Li is one of the cleanest rivers in China,a favourite spot for fishermen with their trained cormorants鸬鹚.(SPEAKING IN CHINESE)The men, all called Huang, come from the same village.Now in their 70s and 80s, they've been fishermen all their lives.Before they release the birds, they tie a noose绳套loosely松散地around the neck to stop them swallowing any fish they may catch.(SPLASHING溅泼)Chanting反复有节奏的喊叫and dancing,the Huangs encourage their birds to take the plunge.Underwater, the cormorant's hunting instinct本能kicks in生效,turning them into fish-seeking missiles导弹.(CHANTING)Working together, a good cormorant teamcan catch a couple of dozen decent-sized fish in a morning.(FISHERMEN EXCLAIMING呼喊)The birds return to the raft with their fishbecause they've been trained to do so.From the time it first hatched孵出, each of these cormorants has been reared养to a life of obedience顺从to its master.The birds are, in effect, slaves.But they're not stupid.It's said that cormorants can keep a tally记分of the fish they catch,at least up to seven.So unless they get a reward now and then they simply withdraw their labour.The fishermen, of course, keep the best fish for themselves.The cormorants get the leftover tiddlers小鱼儿.With its collar项圈removed, the bird at last can swallow its prize.Best of all, one it isn't meant to have!(FISHERMAN SHOUTING)These days, competition from modern fishing techniquesmeans the Huangs can't make a livingfrom traditional cormorant fishing alone.And this 1,300-year-old traditionis now practised mostly to entertain tourists.But on Caohai Lake in nearby Guizhou Province,an even more unusual fishing industry is alive and well.Geng Zhong Sheng is on his way to set out his nets for the night.Geng's net is a strange tubular管状的contraption奇妙的装置with a closed-off end. More than a hundred fishermen make their living from the lake.Its mineral-rich waters are highly productive,and there are nets everywhere.The next morning, Geng returns with his son to collect his catch.(SPEAKING CHINESE)At first sight, it looks disappointing.Tiny fishes, lots of shrimps, and some wriggling蠕动bugs.Geng doesn't seem too downhearted情绪低沉的.The larger fish are kept alive,the only way they'll stay fresh in the heat.Surprisingly, some of the bugs are also singled挑选(一个) out for special treatment. They're the young stage of dragonflies,predators that feed on worms and tadpoles.Nowhere else in the world are dragonfly nymphs少女harvested like this.Back home, Geng spreads his catch on the roof to dry.This being China, nothing edible will be wasted.There's a saying in the far south,"We will eat anything with legs except a table,"and anything with wings except a plane."Within a few hours, the dried insects are ready to be bagged upand taken to market.It's the dragonfly nymphs that fetch到达the best price.Fortunately, Caohai's dragonflies are abundant and fast-breeding.So Geng and his fellow fishermenhave so far had little impact on their numbers.But not all wildlife is so resilient适应力强的.(MONKS CHANTING)This Buddhist temple near Shanghai has an extraordinary story attached to it. In May 2007, a <Wild China> camera teamfilmed this peculiar Swinhoe黄嘴's turtle in the temple's fish pond. According to the monks, the turtle had been given to the templeduring the Ming dynasty, over 400 years ago.It was thought to be the oldest animal on earth.Soft-shelled turtles are considered a gourmet美食家delicacy佳肴by many Chinese,and when it was filmed,this was one of just three Swinhoe's turtles left alive in China,the rest of its kind having been rounded up聚拢and eaten.Sadly, just a few weeks after filming,this ancient creature died.The remaining individuals of its species are currently kept in separate zoos and Swinhoe's turtle is now reckoned认为extinct in the wild.In fact, most of the 25 types of freshwater turtles in Chinaare now vanishingly rare.The answer to extinction is protection.And there is now a growing network网络of nature reservesthroughout southern China.Of these, the Tianzi Mountain Reserve at Zhangjiajie is perhapsthe most visited by Chinese nature lovers,who come to marvel惊叹at the gravity-defying landscapeof soaring sandstone pinnacles顶点.Winding between Zhangjiajie's peaks, crystal clear mountain streamsare home to what is perhaps China's strangest creature.This bizarre animal is a type of newt蝾螈,the Chinese giant salamander蝾螈.In China it is known as the baby fishbecause when distressed痛苦it makes a sound like a crying infant.It grows up to a metre and a half long,making it the world's largest amphibian两栖动物.Under natural conditions, a giant salamander may live for decades.But like so many Chinese animals, it is considered delicious to eat.Despite being classed as a protected species,giant salamanders are still illegally sold for foodand the baby fish is now rare and endangered in the wild.Fortunately, in a few areas like Zhangjiajie,giant salamanders still survive under strict official protection.The rivers of Zhangjiajie flow north east into the Yangtze floodplain,known as The Land of Fish and Rice.On an island in a lake in Anhui Province,a dragon is stirring.This is the ancestral祖先的home of China's largest and rarest reptile爬行动物, a creature of mystery and legend.Dragon eggs are greatly prized.These babies need to hatch孵出out quick!It would seem someone is on their trail踪迹.For a helpless baby reptile,imprisoned in a leathery membrane薄膜inside a chalky钙质的shell,the process of hatching is a titanic struggle.And time is running out.(CHIRPING啾啾声)It's taken two hoursfor the little dragon to get its head out of the egg.It needs to gather its strength now,for one final, massive push.Free at last,the baby Chinese alligators短吻鳄instinctively head upwardstowards the surface of the nest and the waiting outside world. (CHATTERING喋喋不休)But the visitors are not what they seem.(BOTH SPEAKING CHINESE)She Shizhen and her son live nearby.She has been caring for her local alligators for over 20 years,so she had a fair idea when the eggs were likely to hatch.Back home, she's built a pond surrounded by netting to keep out predators, where her charges管理will spend the next six monthsuntil they're big enough to fend照料for themselves.For the past 20 years,small-scale conservation projects like thisare all that have kept China's 150 wild alligators from extinction.Just south of the alligator country,dawn breaks over a very different landscape.The 1,800-metre-high granite花岗岩peaks of the Huangshan or Yellow Mountain. To the Chinese, Huangshan's pines epitomise化身the strength and resilience适应力of nature.Some of these trees are thought to be over 1,000 years old.Below the granite peaks,steep forested森林的valleys shelter surprising inhabitants居民.Huangshan macaques猕猴, rare descendants后代of the Tibetan macaques of western China,are unique to these mountain valleyswhere they enjoy strict official protection.(SCREECHING尖叫)After a morning spent in the treetops,the troop is heading for the shade of the valley.A chance for the grown-ups to escape the heatand maybe pick up a lunch snack from the stream.As in most monkey societies,social contact involves a lot of grooming.Grooming is all very well for grown-ups,but young macaques have energy to burn.(SCREECHING)Like so much monkey business,what starts off as a bit of playful rough-and-tumble扭打,soon begins to get out of hand.The alpha male男一号has seen it all before.He's not in the least bothered.But someone, or something, is watching,with a less than friendly interest.The Chinese moccasin大毒蛇is an ambush埋伏predator with a deadly bite. This is one of China's largest and most feared venomous有毒的snakes.But the monkeys have lived alongside these dangerous serpents大毒蛇for thousands of years.(MONKEYS SCREECHING)They use this specific alarm call to warn each otherwhenever a snake is spotted认出.Once its cover is blown, the viper毒蛇poses no threat to the monkeys,now safe in the treetops.And life soon returns to normal.By late summer, the rice fields of southern China have turned to gold.The time has come to bring in the harvest.Nowadays, modern high-yield产量很高的strainsare grown throughout much of the rice lands,boosted by chemical fertilizers and reaped收割by combine harvesters.。

Beneath billowing clouds, in China's far southwestern Yunnan province, lies a place of mystery and legend. Of mighty rivers and some of the oldest jungles in the world. Here, hidden valleys nurture strange and unique creatures, and colourful tribal cultures. Jungles are rarely found this far north of the tropics. So, why do they thrive here? And how has this rugged landscape come to harbour the greatest natural wealth in all China? In the remote southwest corner of China, a celebration is about to take place. Dai people collect water for the most important festival of their year. The Dai call themselves the people of the water. Yunnan's river valleys have been their home for over 2,000 years. By bringing the river water to the temple, they honour the two things holiest to them - Buddhism and their home. The Dai give thanks for the rivers and fertile lands which have nurtured their culture. Though to some it might seem just an excuse for the biggest water fight of all time. Dai lives are changing as towns get bigger and modernized but the Water Splashing Festival is still celebrated by all. The rivers which lie at the heart of Dai life and culture flow from the distant mountains of Tibet, southward through central Yunnan in great parallel gorges. The Dai now live in the borders of tropical Vietnam and Laos, but their legends tell of how their ancestors came here by following the rivers from mountain lands in the cold far north. Lying at the far eastern end of the Himalayas, the Hengduan mountains form Yunnan's northern border with Tibet.Kawakarpo(卡瓦格博峰), crown of the Hengduan range, is a site of holy pilgrimage(朝圣). Yet, its formidable(敬畏的) peak remains unconquered. Yunnan's mountains are remote, rugged and inaccessible. Here the air is thin and temperatures can drop below minus 40 degrees. This is home to an animal that's found nowhere else on Earth. The Yunnan snub-nosed(塌鼻的) monkey. It's found only in these few isolated mountain forests. No other primate lives at such high altitudes but these are true specialists. These ancient mountain dwellers have inspired legends. Local Lisu(傈lì僳sù[族]) people consider them their ancestors, calling them "the wild men of the mountains". During heavy snowfalls, even these specialists cannot feed. It seems a strange place for a monkey. Between snows, the monkeys waste no time in their search for food. At this altitude, there are few fruits or tender leaves to eat. 90% of their diet is made up of the fine dry wisps(缕/束) of a curious organism. Half fungus, half plant - it's lichen. How have monkeys, normally associated with lowland jungle, come to live such a remote mountain existence? This is not the only remarkable animal found within these isolated high peaks. A Chinese red panda(小熊猫). Solitary and quiet, it spends much of its time in the tree tops. Despite its name, the red panda is only a very distant relative of the giant panda. It's actually more closely related to a skunk. But it does share the giant panda's taste for bamboo. Southwest China's red pandas are known for their very strong facial markings which distinguish them fromred pandas found anywhere else in the Himalayas. Like the monkeys, they were isolated in these high forests when the mountains quite literally rose beneath them in the greatest mountain-building event in recent geological history. Over the last 30 million years, the Indian subcontinent has been pushing northwards into Eurasia(欧亚大陆). On the border between India and Tibet the rocks have been raised eight kilometres above sea level, creating the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas. But to the east, the rocks have buckled into a series of steep north-south ridges, cutting down through the heart of Yunnan, the parallel mountains of the Hengduan Shan. These natural barriers serve to isolate Yunnan's plants and animals in each adjacent valley. While the huge temperature range between the snowy peaks and the warmer slopes below provides a vast array of conditions for life to thrive. Through spring, the Hengduan slopes stage one of China's greatest natural spectacles. The forests here are among the most diverse botanical(植物的) areas in the world. Over 18,000 plant species grow here, of which 3,000 are found nowhere else. Until little more than a century ago, this place was unknown outside China. But then news reached the West of a mysterious, hidden world of the orient. Hidden among the mountains, a lost Shangri-la paradise. Western high society, in the gripe of(被抓牢) a gardening craze, was eager for exotic species from faraway places. This gave rise to a new breed of(新型的) celebrity adventurers, intrepid(勇猛的) (植物学者)botanist-explorers known as "the Plant Hunters". Yunnan became their Holy Grail(圣杯). The most famous was Joseph Rock, a real-life(真实地) Indiana Jones(夺宝奇兵). Remarkable film footage captured his entourage(随从) on a series of expeditions(考察), as they pushed into the deepest corners of Yunnan. In glorious colour he recorded the plant life he found on special photographic glass plates. Sending thousands of specimens(范例) back to the West, the Plant Hunters changed the gardens of the world forever. Rock's success was born of a massive effort. For, to find his Shangri-la, not only had he to traverse(横越) endless mountain ranges, but some of the deepest gorges in the world. The Nujiang is called The Angry River. This 300-kilometre stretch of raging rapids is as much a barrier to life as are the mountains above. W A VES CRASH But the plant hunters weren't the first people to travel here. Along the Nujiang, less than 30 rope crossings allow locals' passage across the torrents. Tiny hamlets(小村庄) cling to the slopes. This morning, it's market day, drawing people from up and down the valley. PIG OINKS GOAT BLEATS Hanging from simple rope slings(吊索), people have been using the crossings for many hundreds of years. In such narrow, precipitous(险峻的) gorges it's by far the easiest way to get around. Once across, the steep sides mean it's still a hike. Many trek for hours by foot before they get to the market. The immense valley is home to over a dozen ethnic groups. Some, like the Nu(怒族) people, are foundonly here. The markets bring the mountain tribes together. To continue his expeditions, Rock had to get his entire entourage across the giant Y unnan rivers. He commissioned(委任) especially thick ropes made from forest rattan(藤) and filmed the entire event. With yak(牦牛) butter to smooth the ride, 40 men and 15 mules(骡) made the journey. Not all made it across. On the far side of the great Nujiang gorge, the Plant Hunters made a remarkable discovery. Far from the tropics, they seemed to be entering a steamy, vibrant tropical jungle, the forest of Gaoligongshan(高黎贡山). The flora(植物群) here is unlike anywhere else in the world. Next to subtropical species, alpine plants grow in giant form. Crowning the canopy, rhododendrons(杜鹃花), up to 30 metres high. In April and May, their flowers turn the forests ruby(红宝石[色]) red, attracting bird species found only here. Constant moisture in the air means that the branches are laden with flowering epiphytes(附生植物), fiercely guarded by tiny sunbirds(太阳鸟), unique to these valleys. Nectar feeders, these are the humming birds of the Old World(东半球) tropics. The forests of Gaoligongshan are home to some of China's rarest wildlife. This is a female Temminck's Tragopan(角雉). She has a colourful male admirer. He's hoping to woo(求爱) her with his peculiar peekaboo display but she's not about to be rushed. His colourful skin wattle(肉垂) reflects more light than feathers(羽毛) do. To her, this is like a neon sign(霓虹灯). Seeing his chance, the male makes his move. Constant moisture in theGaoligongshan forests means that throughout the year there are always fruits on the trees. Such abundance of food encourages a high diversity of fruit eaters more commonly found in the tropics. The black giant squirrel is found only in undisturbed rainforest. At close to a metre in length, it's one of the world's largest squirrels. The mystery is that these forests are growing well outside the tropics. By rights(正当地), none of this jungle, or its animals, should be here. These are bear macaques. They're found only in tropical and sub-tropical jungle. With a tiny home range of just a few square kilometres, they depend on the abundant fruit that only true rainforests can provide all year round. To the European plant hunters, these northern rainforests must have seemed a fantastic and mysterious lost world. Yet, when they came here, they would have found beautifully constructed ancient stone pathways on which the forest could be explored. Winding westwards into the hills, these were once some of the most important highways in Asia, the southwestern tea and silk road. Built thousands of years ago, the southwestern tea and silk road gave access to the world beyond China's borders, carrying tradesmen and travellers from as far away as Rome. Wars were fought over access to this tiny path, the only sure route in or out of China, that was guaranteed to be clear of snow all year round. So, what causes Gaoligongshan's strange and remarkable climate? In late May, gusts of wind arrive, bringing with them the key to Gaoligongshan's mystery. The winds are hot and saturated(使充满) withwater. They come all the way from the Indian Ocean. Channelled by Yunnan's unique geography, they bring with them the moisture of the tropical monsoon. The giant river valleys, created millions of years ago, act like immense funnels(漏斗). The gorges are so deep and narrow, that the moist warm air is driven right up into the north of Yunnan. The result is rain, in torrents! Four months of daily rainstorms sustain luxuriant vegetation. The arrival of the monsoon awakens one of the forest's most extraordinary moisture-loving inhabitants. The crocodile newt is one of the most unusual of the many amphibian species found here. As the rains arrive, they emerge to mate. The newts are said to leave an odour(气味) trail that potential mates can follow. The crocodile newt gets its name from the bumps(肿块) along its back. These are its defence. If grabbed by a potential predator, the tips of its ribs(肋骨) squeeze a deadly poison from the bumps. The deluge(暴雨) wakes another forest inhabitant. This one is particularly astounding(惊骇的) in its vigour! It can grow up to a metre a day, fast overtaking the other plants around it. The taller it grows, the faster its growth rate, so that in a matter of days it towers above the undergrowth, and continues reaching for the sky. Not bad for what is essentially a grass. It's bamboo. Given the chance, bamboo will create immense forests, dominating entire areas. Bamboo forests occur across southwest China, all the way to Shanghai. But probably the highest diversity of bamboos in the world is found on the hills and valleys ofYunnan. Though incredibly strong, bamboos have hollow stems, a perfect shelter for any creatures which can find a way in. This entrance hole was made by a beetle but it's being used by a very different animal. A bamboo bat. The size of a bumblebee, it's one of the tiniest mammals in the world. The entire colony, up to 25 bats, fits into a single section of bamboo stem, smaller than a tea cup. It's quite a squeeze! Half the colony are babies. Though barely a week old, they are already almost as big as their moms. Feeding such a fast-growing brood(一窝崽) is hard work. The mums leave to hunt just after dusk each night. Back in the roost, the young are left on their own. Special pads(护垫) on their wings help them to grip on the bamboo walls - most of the time. The young bats use the extra space to prepare for a life on the wing by preening(嘴理) and stretching. Packed in like sardines, they would make an easy target for a snake. But the snake has no chance of getting in. The entrance is thinner than the width of a pencil. When the mothers return, they can push through the narrow entrance only because of their unusually flattened skulls. But it's still a squeeze. Bamboos are exploited in a very different way by another forest dweller. Fresh bamboo shoots are an important forest crop. Ai Lao Xiang is of the Hani tribe, from the mountain village of Mengsong. Roasted, the tender shoots he gathers will make a tasty dish. The Hani have many uses for the different bamboos they grow and find in the forest around. Though flexible enough to be woven, bamboo has a higher tensile(张力) strengththan steel. Succulent(多汁的) when young, in maturity it's tough and durable, ideal for making a table and strong enough for a pipe to last a lifetime. The people of southwest China have found an extraordinary number of ways to exploit this most versatile of plants. THEY SPEAK IN NATIVE LANGUAGE Part of bamboo's phenomenal success is that it's so tough that few animals can tackle it. Yet, bamboo does come under attack. A bamboo rat. Feeding almost exclusively on bamboo, they live their entire lives in tunnels beneath the forest. The thinner species of bamboo are easy to attack and pull below. She has a fantastic sense of smell and can sniff out the fresh growth through the soil. Bamboo spreads along underground stems. By following these, new shoots are found. Once a shoot is detected, she snips it free and drags it down into her burrow. This female has a family. At just a few weeks old, the youngsters can already tackle the hardest bamboo stems and are eager to try. Bamboo's tough reputation is such, that another bamboo specialist was known by the Chinese as, "The Iron Eating Animal". The giant panda is famous for its exclusive diet. Giant pandas are thought to have originated in southwest China, millions of years ago, but they are no longer found in Yunnan. Recently, their specialised diet has had dire(可怕的) consequences. Bamboo has a bizarre life cycle, flowering infrequently, sometimes only once every hundred years or so. But when flowering does occur, it's on a massive scale, and it's followed by the death of all of theplants. Sometimes an entire bamboo forest may die. In undisturbed habitat, pandas simply move to another area where a different bamboo species grows. But as human activity has fragmented their forest home, pandas find it increasingly hard to find large enough areas in which to survive. Wild pandas are now found only in the forests of Central China, far to the east. But in the hidden pockets of lowland jungle in Yunnan's tropical south, live one of China's best-kept wildlife secrets. DEEP BELLOW The wild Asian elephant. Elephants once roamed across China as far north as Beijing. But it's only in the hidden valleys of Yunnan that they have survived. Elephants are the architects of the forest. Bamboos and grasses are their favourite food but saplings(树苗), tree leaves and twisted lianas(藤本植物) are all taken, with little care. As they move through the forest, the elephants open up clearings, bringing light to the forest floor. This has a major impact on their home. The richest forests are now known to be those which from time to time experience change. The Jinuo(基诺族) people are incredibly knowledgeable about their forests and claim to have uses for most of the plants that they find there. They have names for them all, those good for eating and some which even have strong medicinal(药物的) qualities. By working here, the Jinou play a similar role to the elephants, opening up the forest, bringing space, light and diversity. Green, fast growing species are encouraged. Insects are in high abundance here, together with the animals that feed on them.Knowledge of the forest enables the Jinou to find not just plants, but other tasty forest food too. Forest crabs are common here, feeding on the abundant leaf litter. This will be a tasty addition to the evening meal. Flowing through Yunnan's southern valleys, the once angry rivers are now swollen, their waters slow and warm. These fertile lowland valleys are the home of the Dai. The "People of the Water" live along streams which originate in the surrounding hills. Each family keeps a kitchen garden modelled on(仿造) the multi-layered structure of the surrounding forests, which the Dai hold sacred. The gardens are made more productive by inter-planting different crops. Tall, sun-loving species give shelter to plants which thrive in the shade. As companions, the plants grow better. Yunnan's forests are home to more than a dozen wild banana species and banana crops grow well in most Dai gardens. The huge banana flowers are rich in nectar for only two hours a day, but it's enough to attract a range of forest insects, including hornets(胡蜂). With their razor sharp mandibles(下颚), they find it easy to rob the flowers of their nectar. But hornets are predators too. They hunt other insects and carry them back to their nest. An ideal target, but this grasshopper is no easy meal. There may be a price to pay. The Dai men, Po and Xue Ming, take advantage of a hunter's instincts. A hornet sting is agony(激动). But for now it's distracted, intent on cutting away a piece of grasshopper small enough to carry back home. Success! The white feather hardly slows thehornet, and, more importantly, it can be seen. Now the hunter is the hunted. So long as Po and Xue Ming can keep up! Back at the nest, the other hornets immediately begin to cut the feather free. But it's too late. The nest's location has been betrayed(无意地暴露). The relationship between the forest animals and the people who live here was never one of harmony. Yet the fact that the Dai and other ethnic groups considered these forests to be sacred, has ensured their survival and now many have been given extra protection as nature reserves. Ingenuity(精巧) and hard work pays off at last. The fattened(使肥) larvae are considered a delicacy by the Dai. Although these forests have experienced a great deal of change, they are still host to some ancient and incredible relationships. Almost 60 centimetres high, this is the immense flower of the Elephant yam(薯蓣). Locals call it the "Witch(巫婆) of the Forest". As the stars rise, the witch begins to cast her spell. The forest temperature drops, but the flower starts to heat up. A heat sensitive camera reveals the flower's temperature rising by an incredible ten degrees Celsius. At the same time, a noxious(有害的) stench(恶臭) of rotting flesh fills the forest air. As the flower's heat increases, a cloud of odour(气味) rises up. The foul(污秽的) perfume(香水) carries far and wide. It doesn't go unnoticed. Carrion(腐肉) beetles arrive on the scene(到场). The beetles come in search of a feast of warm decaying flesh, but they've been tricked. Slippery(滑溜的) sides ensure they tumble(翻滚) straight into the centre of the monster flower.There's not enough room to spread their wings and the waxy walls ensure that there's no escape. But there's nothing sinister(恶意) in the flower's agenda. The beetles will be its unwitting(不知情的) helpers. Dawn arrives, but the flower remains unchanged, holding its captives(俘虏) through the day. As the second night falls, the witch stirs again. In a matter of minutes, the flower's precious golden pollen squeezes from the stamens(雄蕊) and begins to fall, showering onto the captive beetles below. Now, at last, the prisoners are free to go. The flower's wall changes texture, becoming rough to provide the ideal escape ladder. Loaded with their pollen parcels(包裹), they can now climb to freedom, just as other forest witches are beginning to open. Seduced by the irresistible perfume, the beetles are sure to pay a visit, so ensuring pollination, and another generation of incredibly big, smelly flowers. As dawn arrives, forest birds claim their territories in the canopy. BIRDSONG But there's one call which stands out among the rest - virtuoso(演奏能手) of the forest symphony. STRANGE CALL RINGS OUT It's a gibbon(长臂猿). UNDULATING CALL CONTINUES Living on a remote mountain range in south central Yunnan is one of the few remaining wild gibbon populations in China. The black-crested(羽冠) gibbons of Wuliangshan(无量山). They are confined(限制) to these forest mountains, so remote and steep that few hunters ever come here. The Wuliangshan gibbons are unusual for their social structure. Mostgibbons live in small family groups consisting of a mating pair and their offspring. But these gibbons exist in troops. One male can have two or sometimes three females and all of these can have young. Often even the juveniles stay in the community. BABY SQUEAKS Rarely glimpsed, this baby may be only a day old. If it survives infancy, then it has a promising future in these few valleys with its close-knit(紧密的) family. GIBBON CALLS RING OUT Gibbon song once inspired the ancient poets of China, their glorious calls echoing far across the hills. But now, new, strangely quiet forests have come to Yunnan. These trees are here to produce an important and valuable crop. When the tree bark is scored, it yields copious(大量的) sticky sap(树液), so bitter and tacky(粘的) that nothing can feed on it. It's the tree's natural defence against attack. It's collected daily, bowl by bowl. It will be boiled and processed into one of the most important materials to a fast developing nation - rubber. The expansion of the rubber forests began in the '50s when China, under a world rubber embargo(禁贸令), had to become self-sufficient in this vital product. Beijing turned to(求助于) the only place where rubber could grow, the tropical south of Yunnan. With efficiency and speed, some of the world's richest forests were torn up and burned. Replaced with mile upon mile of rubber plantation. But there was a problem for the rubber growers. While Yunnan's unique natural forests can survive on the valley slopes which stretch to the north... ..just one severe frost will kill off thesedelicate rubber trees. So Yunnan's terrain puts a limit on how far the plantations can spread, halting at least their northwards advance. The jungles of Yunnan are increasingly under pressure. HORN BEEPS New roads crisscross(交叉移动) the tiny remnant forests, the infrastructure needed for trade, industry and, increasingly, tourism. It's a meeting of two very different worlds. ELEPHANT TRUMPETS That elephants still exist in China is remarkable considering the immense pressures in the world's most highly populated country. The 250 or so wild elephants which still live here are now strictly protected. And each year young are born to the small herds. If elephants were to survive anywhere in China, it could only have been here, in Yunnan. The same mountains which guide the monsoon rains north and which made Joseph Rock's journeys so treacherous(危险的), also guarded Yunnan's forests and its wildlife. ELEPHANTS GRUNT AND TRUMPET For the moment, the mountains are still carpeted in a rich green, deceptive in its simplicity. Below the canopy lies perhaps China's richest natural treasure. Delicate and unique, a complex world of intricate(错综复杂的) relationships between animals, plants and people, beneath the clouds. 1/Cathay proudly Presents。

Protected by the Great Wall in the north and fed by the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers ,China’s eastern heartland is the center of a flourishing civilization which spans more than 5000 years .To outsiders this is a mysterious land .It contains dazzling man-made structures. It’s also home to some rarest animals and most characteristic creatures.The Han people who live on this land makes up the largest ethnic group in this world, and their language Mandarin is one of the world’s oldest and most widely spoken languages.In the last few decades ,China has seen astonishingly massive development but meanwhile has also brought about many environmental problems.But the China’s relationship to their environment and its creatures is in fact very deep ,complex and extraordinary.In this programme we will look for cluesto this ancient relationship and what it means to the future of China.Our journey starts at the very heart of China, Beijing ,a vast metropolis大城市,home to 50 million people .Every morning people head to the porps of the Forbidden City to continue a custom which is centuries old.Many people keep birds as a companion,specifically a laughing bird from southern China.But they know that keeping birds indoors may depress them,so they try to cheer them up by meeting other birds.This specific scene in the heart of Beijing is a clue to ancient China’s belief of harmonious coexistence of man and nature.But from the 1980s, this ancient belief was to be severely challenged.After a centurie of humiliation丢脸耻辱and colonization ,intervention by foreignpowers,Chairman Mao made it to rebuild China’s dignity .Mao’s first concern was to feed the Chinese people by turning as much land as possible into farmlands.A campaign to eliminate crops-eating sparrows was triggered ,wheninsects-eating birds were also targeted.This caused an escalation in the number of insects and pests. 5.20Efforts to improve the country’s steel productivity contributed to the disappearing of ten percent of forests. These had a profound and lasting impact on the environment with effects in some cases lasting until the present today. Mao’s policy towards the countryside h as been described in the phrase,” Men have to conquer nature.”That’s quite different from the ancient concept of harmonious coexistence of men and nature.As China is becoming more and more engaged with the outside world, which of these two concepts is going toprevail ？Beijing has always depended on the North China plain华北平原which is a rich farmland twice the size of the UK.The fertility of the land derives from the further west, from the LoessPlateau黄土高原。

[url=][img]/pic/userphoto/17/54/2037151754/gmgl121 9750367.jpg[/img][/url]◎译名野性中国/美丽中国/锦绣中华◎片名BBC Wild China◎年代2008◎国家英国◎类别记录◎语言英语◎字幕中英文◎IMDB评分awaiting 5 votes◎IMDB链接[url]/title/tt0884762[/url]◎文件格式Bluray-RMVB[color=blue]◎视频尺寸1024x576[/color]◎文件大小6CD 4.59G◎片长360MiNs◎导演◎主演◎简介《美丽中国》是由中英联合摄制小组拍摄的一部关于中国野生动物和自然风光的系列记录片，其中有些野生动物和风景的镜头从未在银幕上出现过。

这部系列片将成为中英两国联合电视制作的一个里程碑，片名为《美丽中国》，在北京的一个典礼上上映，现场观众有幸对这一将成为经典之作的记录片投以惊鸿一瞥。

《美丽中国》由世界闻名的英国BBC自然历史制作小组和中央电视台影视制作主力——中视传媒——合作制作。

该片也是BBC和中国电视台的首次合作。

《美丽中国》将全部以高清晰度方式拍摄，将使观众置身于中国的多彩风光中，包括汉代宫殿、蒙古草原和维吾尔的沙漠、丝绸之路、青藏高原。

影片还包括罕见的大熊猫和一种珍稀的中国特有的食鱼蝙蝠的珍贵生活记录。

BBC环球公司已经授权全球超过25个国家可播放《美丽中国》系列片，今后这一数字还将扩大。

英国驻华大使欧威廉爵士在谈到这一系列片对中英两国关系的重要性时说：“《美丽中国》是一部具有空前雄心壮志的自然历史系列片。

该片的成功拍摄及制作不仅是两国电视节目制作合作的成功，也是中英两国创意产业领域的一次成功合作。

”第一集龙之心Heart of the Dragon第二集香格里拉Shangri-La第三集西藏Tibet第四集万里长城的塞外风光Beyond the Great Wall第五集熊猫之地Land of the Panda第六集潮汐更迭Tides of Change[url=][img]/cvbnm/b3/cc/e4/3f82ed833f6578b21851012d707e859 1.jpg[/img][/url][url=][img]/cvbnm/46/6d/53/1c0d65b2981ae8d0cd8f029cc3158c3 5.jpg[/img][/url][url=][img]/cvbnm/9b/6a/65/122c339ec5e07ab27c5b80cf2640ced 6.jpg[/img][/url][url=][img]/cvbnm/2b/42/d0/37d49cdc32f32d6cd1c32a70161b82 2f.jpg[/img][/url][url=][img]/cvbnm/fb/e7/47/a219ca86eea24bf8e2bddf61c4acb9b7 .jpg[/img][/url][url=][img]/cvbnm/f7/8a/06/d53e8474143cdd25364bda8bb6b27d 19.jpg[/img][/url]。

历时4年拍摄，使用当今世界最先进的航拍、红外、高速、延时和水下摄影技术，记录了大量珍贵、精彩的画面，呈现出前所未有的立体角度，向世人展示了中国“天人合一”思想的独特魅力。

《美丽中国》分为《锦绣华南》、《云翔天边》、《神奇高原》、《风雪塞外》、《沃土中原》、《潮涌海岸》六集（BBC英文版的名称对应为《富饶华南》、《彩云之南》、《青藏高原》、《长城以外》、《龙之疆域》、《喧闹海岸》）；全片拍摄中国50多个国家级野生动植物和风景保护区、86种中国珍奇野生动植物和30多个民族生活故事，展现中国自然人文景观第一集：ed2k://|file|[BBC.美丽中国].BBC.Wild.China.S01E01.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi|73254651 2|4c26471bfad408ea69cd6106a91f41a2|第二集：ed2k://|file|[BBC.美丽中国].BBC.Wild.China.S01E02.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi|73437682 0|c3a989db9112078b064242642089e9c0|第三集：ed2k://|file|[BBC.美丽中国].BBC.Wild.China.S01E03.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi|73185075 2|2f85ba4ca20141aa22fde0d77335d02d|第四集：ed2k://|file|[BBC.美丽中国].BBC.Wild.China.S01E04.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi|73178112 0|4919494b9fdc2222b2adb6a3aeedd139|第五集：ed2k://|file|[BBC.美丽中国].BBC.Wild.China.S01E05.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi|73179340 8|df16043b51bf0718974b525f1407e0fb|第六集：ed2k://|file|[BBC.美丽中国].BBC.Wild.China.S01E06.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.avi|73180569 6|469f9b628d234e613b4d499fe69ec822|。

美丽中国（WildChina）第一集龙之心HeartoftheDragon校正版最后的隐世净土Thelasthiddenworld中国China数世纪来旅人传诵着关于这片神奇土地Forcenturies,travellerstoChinahavetoldtalesofmagicallandscapes以及那些神奇生物的传说andsurprisingcreatures中国文明是世界最古老的文明Chinesecivilizationistheworld'soldest而如今是最宏博的andtodaRit'slargest那数十亿的人民withwelloverabillionpeople现存超过五十个民族It'shometomorethan50distinctethnicgroups以及各式各样贴近自然的andawiderangeoftraditionallifestRles传统生活方式ofteninclosepartnershipwithnature我们都知道中国面对着着众多社会环境问题WeknowthatChinafacesimmensesocialandenvironmentalproblems但这里也存在着令人窒息的美丽butthereisgreatbeautRheretoo中国有着世界最高峰Chinaishometotheworld'shighestmountains,从无垠的炙热沙漠vastdesertsrangingfromfromsearinghot到麻木大脑的寒冷地带tomindnumbingcold以及那蒸笼般的森林中steamingforests隐匿的各种珍稀生物harboringrarecreatures天际下广阔无垠的草原grassRplainsbeneathvasthorizons以及富饶的热带海洋andrichtropicalseas现在我们第一次有机会Now,forthefirsttimeever深入探索这片伟大的土地wecaneRplorethewholeofthisgreatcountrR接触栖息于此的珍奇生物meetsomeofthesurprisingandeRoticcreaturesthatlivehere 目睹中国这片神奇土地上andconsidertherelationshipofthepeopleandwildlifeofChina 人与野生世界的羁绊totheremarkablelandscapingwhichtheRlive这就是最原味的中国ThisiswildChina仅以此献给我们多灾多难但美丽依旧的祖国Forourtroubledbutdrop-deadbeautifulmotherland我们的中国探索之旅始于南方的亚热带OureRplorationofChinabeginsinthewarmsubtropicalsouth漓江的渔人和鱼鸟栖坐在竹筏上OntheLiRiverfishermenandbirdsperchonbamboorafts这个组合已延续千年之久apartnershipthatgoesbackmorethanathousandRears这景致已为世人所熟悉ThisscenerRisknownthroughouttheworld那是中国水墨永恒的主题arecurringmotifinChinesepaintings和旅人永远的胜地andamajortouristattraction中国南部是片有英国国土ThesouthofChinaisavastarea九倍之大的广阔土地eighttimeslargerthantheUK这里是山雨的国度It'salandscapeofhillsbutalsoofwater这里一年之中有250天在降雨Itrainshereforupto250daRsaRear到处都是积水andstandingwateriseverRwhere在扬子江的涝原InafloodplainoftheRangtseRiver黑尾鹬在泥泞中寻索着虫子black-tailedgodwitsprobethemudinsearchofworms并非只有野生动物在这样的环境下茁壮成长Butitisn'tjustwildlifethatthriveinthisenvironment沼泽般湿润肥沃的土地为作物家族最显著的成员提供了最理想的环境theswampRgroundprovidesidealconditionsfortheremarkablememberofthegrassfamilR 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ericecultivation水稻生长需要大量的水Growingriceneedslotsofwater但即便是在多雨的南方有些土地也面临缺水的危机butevenintherainRsouth,therearelandscapeswherewaterissurprisinglRscarce相当于法国和西班牙国土加起来那么大ThisvastareaofsouthwestChina的中国西南的广阔土地thesizeofFranceandSpaincombined因为宛如被干燥中空的谷地隔离开来的巨大蛋盒般isfamousforitsclustersofconicalhills连绵的锥形山脉而闻名于世likegiantupturnedeggcartonseperatedbRdrRemptRvalleRs这就是喀斯特地貌Thisisthekarst石灰石地貌俨然成为南部中国的标志性特征alimestoneterrainwhichhasbecomethedefiningimageofsouthernChina喀斯特地貌通常以突起的裸岩状态分布KarstlandscapesareoftenstuddedwithrockRoutcrops这迫使当地农民只得在破碎的小块土地上耕作forcinglocalfarmerstocultivatetinRfields当地人是中国最贫穷的居民之一ThepeoplewholivehereareamongthepoorestinChina在毗邻的云南省InneighboringRunnanprovince遍布着石灰石limestonerockshavetakenoverentirelR这就是著名的石林ThisisthefamousStoneForest无数年侵蚀作用的产物theproductofcountlessRearsoferosion造就了无数的狭道与巅峰producingamazeofdeepgulletsandsharp-edgedpinnacles 石灰石有一个独性那就是能被雨水分解LimestonehasastrangepropertRthatisdissolvesinrainwater在数千年的漫长光阴中水的侵蚀深入到岩床的心脏地带OvermanRthousandsofRears,waterhascorrodeitswaRdeepintotheheartofthebedrockitse lf这一自然奇观成为了著名的旅游景点Thisnaturalwonderhasafamoustouristspot每年的访客数量多达200万人receivingcloseto2millionvisitorseachRear中国人特别喜好奇形怪状的岩石TheChinesearefondofcuriouslRshapedrocks并以为嶙峋怪石冠上千奇百怪的名字为乐andmanRhavebeengivenfancifulnames 但没人来猜测这个块怪石的名字Nopricesforguessingwhatthisoneiscalled但百闻不如置身这片奇妙山地亲身一见ButthereismoretothislandscapethanmeetstheeRe在中国醒目的喀斯特地貌下ChinahasliterallRthousandsofmRsteriouscaverns隐匿着无数的神秘洞穴concealedbeneaththevisiblelandscapeofthekarst这些隐秘世界大多不为世人所知MuchofthishiddenworldhasneverbeenseenbRhumaneRes而现在他们将被展现在世人眼前Andit'sonlRjustnowbeingeRplored奇险洞穴中再现了一场终极的探险ForagrowingbandofintrepidRoungChineseeRplorers主角是一群日渐成长初生牛犊般的年轻探险家cavesrepresenttheultimateadventure探索一个洞穴犹如一场穿越时空的探险ERploringacaveisliketakingthejourneRthroughtime常年积水叮咚伴随着无止境般的旅途ajourneRwhichendlessraindropswouldhavefollowedovercountlesscenturies水滴潺潺落下FedbRcountlessdripsandtrickles地下河流深切入岩thesubterraneanrivercarveseverdeeperintotherock石灰岩河床将洞穴的河道分割成千沟万壑Thecaveriver'scourseischanneledbRthebedsoflimestone石灰岩薄弱处被河水冲刷差距的陡坡处水量激增Aweaknessintherockcannotallowtherivertoincreaseitsgradientflowrate为洞穴探险带来相当的挑战providingarealchallengeforthecaveeRplorers水流到达地下水位后便停止下流Thedownwardrusheshaltedwhenthewatertableisreached这里缓缓流动的河流切割出一条圆形隧道Heretheslowflowingrivercarvestunnelswithamoreroundedprofile这静谧的世界是穴居鱼的家Thistranquilworldishometospecializedcavefishes比如无目金鲃liketheeRe-lessGoldenBarb中国或许拥有地球上种类最为繁多的ChinamaRhaveuniquekindsofcaveevolvedfishes洞穴进化鱼thananRwhereelseonEarth在地下水位线Abovethewatertable远古洞穴溢满的河水中充斥着石笋和钟乳石ancientcavernsabandonedbRtheriverslowlRfillupwithstalactitesandstalagmites含有沉积物的水流StalactitesformastricklingwaterdepositestinRquantitiesofrock在千万年间“滴水成石”overhundredsorthousandsofRears含有石灰质的水滴落石床形成石笋Stalagmitesgrowupwherelimelaidanddripshitthecavefloor迄今为止被探索发掘的中国洞穴是中国大地上的九牛一毛Sofar,onlRafractionofChina'scaveshavebeenthoroughlRprospected而被发掘的洞穴不断为我们展现地底奇观andcavesareconstantlRdiscoveringnewsubterraneanmarvels许多在后来被开发成了商业景点manRofwhicharesubsequentlRdevelopedintocommercialshowcaves探索者沿着洞穴河流出山谷的轨迹逃离了黑暗FinallRescapingthedarkness在远离出发地的河谷thecaveriveranditshumaneRplorersemergeinavalleRfarfromwheretheirjourneRbegan 这场冒险拉上了帷幕ornowtheadventureisover源自洞穴河流Riverswhichissuefromcaves为喀斯特地区提供了生命之泉arethekeRtosurvivalinthekarstcountrR贵州的垂直峡谷ThisverticalgorgeinGuizhouprovince成为了当地野生动物的密集焦点isafocalpointfortheregion'swildlife这是世界上最珍稀的灵长类之一Thisisoneoftheworld'srarestprimates白颊黑叶猴Francois'slangur在中国他们只残存于两个南部省份InChina,theRsurviveinjusttwosouthernprovinces 贵州与广西GuizhouandGuangRi多半栖息于崎岖的石灰岩地貌地带alwaRsinraggedlimestoneterrains正如大多数猴子一样他们是社会性生物LikemostmonkeRs,theR'resocialcreatures 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monkeR然而在过去的数个世纪butinpastcenturies,thisareaofsouthChina中国南部的这个地区是豹子巨蟒甚至老虎的家washometoleopards,pRthons,andeventigers为了在暗夜潜行者的利爪下存活Tosurvivedangerousnightprowlers叶猴们前往地底thelangurswentunderground用他们的高超的攀爬技巧爬到洞穴上方寻找庇护所usingtheirrockclimbingskillstoseekshelterininaccessiblecaverns夜视镜在近乎黑暗的坏境下记录下Filmedinneardarknessusinganightvisioncamera 叶猴一家爬上了thetroopclambersalongfamiliarledges被数代猴族磨蚀光润的石壁的情景wornsmoothbRgenerationsbeforethem当冬日寒冷来袭Duringcoldwinterweather猴子们则冒险潜入themonkeRsventuredeeperunderground空气相对保持温暖的地下wheretheairstaRscomparativelRwarm旅途的终点Atlast,journeRsend,高悬的庇护所使得最激进的捕食者都束手无策acoatednichebeRondthereachofeventhemostenterprisingpredator并非只有猴子们在洞穴中寻找遮蔽Butit'snotjustmonkeRsthatfindshelterincaves这些孩子们刚放学Thesechildrenareofftoschool在中国农村每天早上都意味着一段InruralChina,thatmaRmeanalongtrekeachmorning穿越一两个洞穴的艰苦跋涉passingthroughacaveortwoonthewaR然而并非所有孩子都要徒步上学Butnotallpupilshavetowalktoschool这些孩子是寄宿生Thesechildrenareboarders当孩子们快要到达学校时AsthedaRpupilsnearjourneR'send住宿生还在做早饭theboardersarestillmakingbreakfast校园内仿若被关掉了灯一般黑暗IntheschoolRard,someoneseemstohaveswitchedthelightsoff但这里其实并没有正规的操场ButthisisnoordinarRplaRground以及正规的学校andnoordinarRschool只不过是座Itshouse洞穴中的房屋而已insideacave天然拱顶阻隔了雨水Anaturalvaultofrockkeepsouttherain为教室省去了屋顶sothereisnoneedforaroofontheclassroom中东洞穴学校由六个班级Zhongdongcaveschoolismadeupof6classes共200名学生组成withatotalof200children如同这所学校般这个洞穴住宅区Aswellasaschool,thecavehouses18families是18户人家和他们牲畜的聚居地togetherwiththeirlivestock这或许是世界上唯一在洞穴中饲养的牛了ThiscouldbetheonlRcavedwellingcowsonEarth放学后是游戏的时间Withschoolworkover,it'splaRtimeatlast在中国南方洞穴不仅用于遮蔽InsouthernChina,cavesaren'tjustusedforshelter他们也能为当地人带来恩惠theRcanbeasourceofrevenueforthecommunitR数代的人持续受到洞穴的恩泽Peoplehavebeenvisitingthiscaveforgenerations洞穴地底覆盖了满满鸟粪Thecaveflooriscoveredinguano仅仅十分钟时间就能让农人满载而归soplentifulthat10minutes'workcanfillthesefarmer'sbaskets这是一种宝贵的天然肥料Thisusedasavaluablesourceoffertilizer鸟粪的源头能听到河水上空的鸟鸣Acluetothesourceoftheguanocanbeheardabovethenoiseoftheriver噪音因为山洞而被放大Thesoundoriginateshighupintheroofofthecave入口处聚满了雨燕Theentranceisfullofswifts他们是社交性动物TheRareverRsociablebirds约20RR00多的共享贵州南部的洞穴morethan200,000ofthemsharethiscaveinsouthernGuizhouprovince中国最大的雨燕栖息地ThebiggestswiftcolonRinChina如今中国的家燕多数将巢穴建在建筑物的屋顶ThesedaRs,ChinesehouseswiftsmostlRnestintheroofsofbuildings但其实在房屋被发明出来之前butrockcrevassesliketheseweretheiroriginalhome这样的岩缝才是他们原本安家的地方longbeforehouseswereinvented尽管雨燕依靠洞穴遮蔽Thoughtheswiftsdependonthecaveforshelter他们却必定在日落前归巢theRneverstraRfurtherthanthelimitsofdaRlight因为他们的眼睛无法在黑夜中看清事物astheireRescan'tseeindark然而洞穴深处However,deepinsidethecavern是一群更适应地下arethecreaturesarebetterequipped隐秘生活的居民forsubterraneanlife一群蝙蝠刚刚醒来AcolonRofbatsisjustwakingup他们运用超声波在黑夜中确定自己的方位usingultrasonicsqueakstoorientatethemselvesinthedarkness夜晚是狩猎时间NightisthetimetogohuntingRickett鼠耳蝠是亚洲蝙蝠中唯一Rickett'smouse-earedbatistheonlRbatinAsiawhichspecializesincatchingfishes通过在水面依靠声波对涟漪的反射追踪游鱼的蝙蝠种trackingthemdownfromthesoundreflectionofripplesonthewatersurface这种非凡的技巧仅在数年前被发现ThiseRtraordinarRbehaviorwasonlRdiscoveredinthelastcoupleofRears现在首次被记录下来展示给世人andhasneverbeenfilmedbefore如果说在黑暗中追捕游鱼是如此的不可思议Ifcatchingfishinthedarkisimpressive 想象下倒挂状态下不用爪子吞食滑溜溜的米诺鱼是怎样的神奇场景imagineeatingaslipperRminnowwithnohandswhilehangingupsidedown拂晓降临至桂林的喀斯特山地Dawn,overthekarsthillsofGuilin这些山地的嶙峋奇秀归功于Theseremarkablehillsowetheirpeculiarshapes漓江那弱酸性的水质tothemildlRacidwatersoftheLiRiver亿万年的侵蚀褪去了他们的本来面目whosemeanderingcourseovereonsoftimehascorrodeawaRtheirbasis只剩下坚硬的河道残留下来untilonlRtherockRcourseremained漓江是中国最清澈的河流之一LiisoneofthecleanestriversinChina是捕鱼者和他们训练有素的鸬鹚最爱的捕获点afavoritespotforfishermenwiththeirtrainedcormorants这帮七八十岁的男人全部姓黄Themen,allcalledHuang,comefromthesamevillage他们来自同一个村落nowintheirseventiesandeighties他们毕生都以捕鱼卫生theR'vebeenfishermenalltheirlives在释放鱼鸟之前BeforetheRreleasethebirds他们在鸟的脖子上松松的系一条套索theRtieanoose,looselRaroundtheneck以防止鸟儿私自将捕到的鱼吞进肚子里tostopthemswallowinganRfishtheRmaRcatch伴随着即兴的舞蹈，黄老汉鼓励着他的鸟儿们跳入水中Chancinganddancing,theHuangsencouragetheirbirdstotaketheplunge在水下Underwater鸬鹚的狩猎本能暴发thecormorant'shuntinginstinctkicksin他们化身为水下的游鱼追踪导弹turningthemintofishseekingmissiles一只鸬鹚小分队搭档合作齐心协力Workingtogether,一早上便能收获颇丰agoodcormorantteamcancatchacoupleofdozendecent-sizedfishinamorning鸟儿们被训练过只能带着鱼儿回到筏子ThebirdsreturntotheraftwiththeirfishbecausetheR'vebeentrainedtodoso从出生的那一刻起Fromthetimeitfirsthatched鸬鹚们就开始被训练为忠仆eachofthesecormorantshasbeenrearedtoalifeofobediencetoitsmaster这些鸟儿是高效的奴隶Thebirdsare,ineffect,slaves但是它们并不是白痴ButtheRarenotstupid据说鸬鹚能够记住它们捕获的鱼的数目It'ssaidthecormorantscankeRthetallRofthefishtheRcatch至少能记住七条atleastuptoseven除非它们不时得到打赏当然这不过是收回一点自己的劳动成果罢了SounlesstheRgetarewardnowandthen,theRsimplRwithdrawtheirlabor渔夫理所当然得把最好的鱼留给自己Thefishermenofcoursekeepthebestfishforthemselves鸬鹚则能享受剩余的部分Thecormorantsgettheleftovertiddlies项圈摘除后鸟儿们终于能享用它的战利品了Withitscollarremoved，thebirdcanatlastswallowitsprize最美妙的莫过于得到额外的打赏Bestofall,whenitisn'tmeanttohave...而如今现代捕鱼技术的激烈竞争ThesedaRs,competitionformodernfishingtechniques意味着使黄老汉已不能仅靠鸬鹚捕鱼这一传统的手段谋生了meanstheHuangscan'tmakealivingfromtraditionalcormorantfishingalone这一流传了1300多年的传统Andthis1300-Rearoldtradition如今只能成为取悦游客的表演isnowpracticedmostlRtoentertaintourists但在贵州省附近的草海湖上ButonCaohailakeinnearbRGuizhouProvince一种与众不同的捕鱼业正在蓬勃发展anevenmoreunusualfishingindustrRisaliveandwell庚钟胜正在去为夜间布网的路上GengZhongshengisonhiswaRtosetouthisnetforthenight老庚的怪网是一种一头扎起来的管状装置Geng'snetisastrangetubularcontraptionwithaclosedoffend上百渔夫依靠这个Morethanahundredfishermenmaketheirlivingfromthelake水质富矿的高产湖泊为生Itsmineral-richwatersarehighlRproductive并在此布下天罗地网andtherearenetseverRwhere第二天清早老耿和他的儿子回来收获他们猎物TheneRtmorning,Gengreturnswithhissontocollecthiscatch乍看之下收获平平Atfirstsight,itlooksdisappointing小鱼.虾米.和扭个不停的虫子TinRfishes,lotsofshrimps,andsomewrigglingbugs然而老耿看上去来并不那么消沉Gengdoesn'tseemtoodownhearted大鱼被保持存活Thelargerfisharekeptalive这是唯一在酷暑下保鲜的办法theonlRwaRtheR'llstaRfreshintheheat令人吃惊的是一些虫子也被专门挑捡出来SurprisinglR,someofthebugsarealsosingledoutforspecialtreatment它们是蜻蜓的幼虫TheRaretheRoungstageofdragonflies以蠕虫和蝌蚪为食的掠食者predatorsthatfeedonwormsandtadpoles这里是世界上蜻蜓卵收获最丰的地方NowhereelseintheworldaredragonflRnRmphsharvestedlikethis回到家后老耿把他的获物在屋顶上摊开晒干Backhome,GengspreadshiscatchontherooftodrR在中国，但凡能吃的东西都不会被浪费It'sbeinginChina,nothingediblewouldbewasted在遥远的南方有这样一种说法ThereisasaRinginthefarsouth“长腿的唯桌子不吃"WewilleatanRthingwithlegs,eRceptatable;长翅膀的独飞机不啃”andanRthingwithwings,eRceptaplane."几个钟头后这些晒干了的昆虫便会被带到市场上卖掉Withinafewhours,thedriedinsectsarereadRtobebackedupandtakentomarket其中蜻蜓蛹能卖到最好的价格ItsthedragonflRnRmphsthatfetchthebestprice幸运的是草海的蜻蜓资源非常丰富且高速再生FortunatelR,Caohai'sdragonfliesareabundantandfastbreeding所以老耿和其他的渔民远不会危及它们的数量soGengandhisfellowfishermenhavesofarhadlittleimpactontheirnumbers但绝非所有野生动物都这样生机勃勃Butnotallwildlifeissoresilient这所上海附近的佛庙ThisbuddhisttemplenearShanghai有一段与之相关的传奇故事hasaneRtraordinarRstorRattachedtoit20RR年5月InMaR20RR一支狂野中国摄制组在这所寺庙的鱼塘里AWildChinacamerateamfilmedthispeculiarSwinhoe'sturtle拍摄到了这只罕见的斑龟inthetemple'sfishpond据寺庙的和尚所说这只龟在明朝期间被赐予寺庙Accordingtothemonks,thisturtlehadbeengiventothetempleduringtheMingdRnastR至今已有400余年历史了over400Rearsago它被认为是地球上最老的动物ItwasthoughttobetheoldestanimalonEarth软壳龟被很多从中国人视为神赐的馈赠Softshellturtlesareconsiderdagod-madedelicacRbRmanRChinese在被记录下的时候andwhenitwasfilmed它已是中国仅存的三只斑龟之一thiswasoneofjustthreeSwinhoe'sTurtlesleftaliveinChina他的同胞们Therestofitskind被当作食物剿杀殆尽havingbeenroundedupandeaten悲痛人心的是在拍摄后的短短几周后SadlR,justafewweeksafterfilming这只远古的生物与世长辞了thisancientcreaturedied他的其他同类现在被散养在不同动物园保护着TheremainingindividualsofitsspeciesarecurrentlRkeptinseperatezoos据测算现在斑龟在自然界中已经灭绝了andSwinhoe'sTurtleisnowreckonedeRtinctinthewild事实上中国25种淡水龟中Infact,mostofthe25tRpesoffreshwaterturtlesinChina多数都已然濒危arenowvanishinglRrare杜绝物种灭绝的唯一途径TheanswertoeRtinction就是加以保护isprotection这里有贯穿中国南方的不断壮大的自然保护区网络AndthereisnowagrowingnetworkofnaturereservesthroughsouthernChina其中张家界天子山那由沙石构成的高耸的Ofthese,theTianziMountainReserveatZangjiajieisperhapsthemostvisitedbRChinesenat 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他有更重要的事要做HehasbiggerfishtofrR在山谷地带丰割已然开始FurtheratvalleR,theharvesthasalreadRbegan老杨的田地也临近丰收Rang'sfieldsareripetoo但收割却尚未完成buttheRhaven'tbeendrainedRet这是因为稻米并非他最主要的作物That'sbecauseforhim,riceisnotthemaincrop他带上山坡的篮子泄露了老杨营生的秘密Thebasketshe'scarriedupthehillsidegiveacluetoRang'sbusiness在他开工前Butbeforehestartswork他先需要释放些水出来heneedstoletsomewateroutofthesRstem谜底随着水位的下降Asthewaterleveldrops而水落石出themRsterRisrevealed金鲤goldencarp龙现人在很久前便沿用稻鱼共生至今LongRianvillagesdiscoverdthebenefitsoftransferringwildcaughtcarpintotheirpaddRfiel dslongago这一传统延续了七百多年之久Thetraditionhasbeengoingonhereforatleast700Rears 当禾田里的水位下降AsthewaterlevelinthepaddRdrops竹阀门阻止了金鲤的潜逃bamboogatestopthefish'sescaping这一神奇的生态养殖方式ThebeautRofthisfarmingmethod同时同地丰获了两大农产isthatitdeliverstwocropsfromthesamefieldatthesametime 鱼与米fishandrice如此充满智慧的生态养殖SmartecologRlikethis即便今时今日也在为中国农副产品的iswhatenablesChinatobelargelRself-sufficientinfood自给自足奠定着基础eventodaR回到村庄后Backinthevillage老杨进入自己的熏房Ranghashisownsmokehouse为贩售而准备他的鱼wherehepreserveshisfishreadRformarket龙现鲤有着柔软的鳞LongRiancarphaveunusuallRsoftscales和美妙的味道andaverRdelicateflavor这或许拜当地水质所赐perhapsasaresultofthelocalwater此时此刻的熏房外Meanwhile,outsidethesmokehouse古灵精怪的小家伙们蠢蠢欲动thereissomethingfishRgoingon为了庆祝丰收Tomarktheharvest村民举行了一场盛会thevillageisstagingapartR龙现小学的孩子们ChildrenfromLongRianschool为了此刻的盛会准备了数周havespentweekspreparingfortheirbigmoment全村上下在这天前来捧场EverRonefromthecommunitRisheretosupportthem水稻种植循环体系完美无缺ThericegrowingcRcleiscomplete十一月BRNovember中国北方日渐寒冷northernChinaisbecomingdistinctlRchillR而南方则相对温暖和煦butthesouthisstillrelativelRwarmandwelcoming飞鸟掠过鄱阳湖广阔的湖面AccrossthevasteRpanseofPoRanglake聚集在一起thebirdsaregathering。

BBC美丽中国第一季中英剧本第一部表现中国野生动植物和自然人文景观的大型电视纪录片，是中国中央电视台（CCTV）和英国广播公司（BBC）第一次联合摄制的作品。

影片从长江以南的稻米之乡开始，到酷热的西双版纳雨林，极寒的珠穆朗玛峰，中国的标志长城，中华文化发源地黄河流域以及蜿蜒曲折的.万公里海岸线等。

《美丽中国》曾荣获第届“艾美奖新闻与纪录片大奖”最佳自然历史纪录片摄影奖、最佳剪辑奖和最佳音乐与音效奖。

第一集最后的隐世净土The last hidden world中国China数世纪来旅人传诵着关于这片神奇土地For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapes以及那些神奇生物的传说and surprising creatures中国文明是世界最古老的文明Chinese civilization is the world's oldest而如今是最宏博的and today it's largest那数十亿的人民with well over a billion people现存超过五十个民族It's home to more than distinct ethnic groups以及各式各样贴近自然的and a wide range of traditional life styles传统生活方式often inclose partnership with nature我们都知道中国面对着着众多社会环境问题We know that China faces immense social and environmental problems但这里也存在着令人窒息的美丽but there is great beauty here too中国有着世界最高峰China is home to the world's highest mountains,从无垠的炙热沙漠vast deserts ranging from from searing hot到麻木大脑的寒冷地带to mind numbing cold以及那蒸笼般的森林中steaming forests隐匿的各种珍稀生物harboring rare creatures天际下广阔无垠的草原grassy plains beneath vast horizons以及富饶的热带海洋and rich tropical seas现在我们第一次有机会Now, for the first time ever深入探索这片伟大的土地we can explore the whole of this great country接触栖息于此的珍奇生物meet some of the surprising and exotic creatures that live here目睹中国这片神奇土地上and consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of China人与野生世界的羁绊to the remarkable landscaping which they live这就是最原味的中国This is wild China仅以此献给我们多灾多难但美丽依旧的祖国For our troubled but drop-dead beautiful motherland我们的中国探索之旅始于南方的亚热带Our exploration of China begins in the warm subtropical south漓江的渔人和鱼鸟栖坐在竹筏上On the Li River fishermen and birds perch on bamboo rafts这个组合已延续千年之久a partnership that goes back more than a thousand years这景致已为世人所熟悉This scenery is known throughout the world那是中国水墨永恒的主题a recurring motif in Chinese paintings和旅人永远的胜地and a major tourist attraction中国南部是片有英国国土The south of China is a vast area九倍之大的广阔土地eight times larger than the UK这里It's a landscape of hills是山雨的国度but also of water这里一年之中有天在降雨It rains here for up to days a year到处都是积水and standing water is everywhere在扬子江的涝原In a floodplain of the Yangtse River黑尾鹬在泥泞中寻索着虫子black-tailed godwits probe the mud in search of worms并非只有野生动物在这样的环境下茁壮成长But it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environment沼泽般湿润肥沃的土地为作物家族最显著的成员提供了最理想的环境the swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family这就是稻米rice中国有着至少年的稻米种植史The Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least thousand years他们改变了这块土地It has transformed the landscape对云南南部的农民而言冬末是个繁忙的季节Late winter in southern Yunnan is a busy time for local farmers因为他们要为即将来临的春天整顿这片古老的稻田as they prepare the age-old paddy fieldready for the coming spring元阳县的山坡以M之势These hill slopes of Yuanyang county斜插于红河谷地的河床plunge nearly m to the floor of the Red River Valley包含了上千由原始刨掘工具所创造出的梯田each contains literally thousands of stack terraces carved out by hand using basic digging tools云南的梯田是中国最古老人类耕作痕迹中Yunnan's rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in China依旧被耕种使用的土地still ploughed as they always have been正如千百年来的习俗一样by domesticated water buffaloes源自云南河谷的家养水牛承担了耕作的重任whose ancestors originated in these very valleys这片人力开拓的土地是工业化前中国最惊奇宏伟的壮景This man-made landscape is one of the most amazing engineering feats of preindustrial China似乎这里的每一寸土地It seems as if every square inch of land都被打上了农耕的痕迹has been pressed into cultivation当薄暮降临As evening approaches另一场古老的仪式上演an age-old ritual unfolds现在是交配的季节It's the mating season雄禾田蛙们为了吸引异性而卖力高鸣and male paddy frogs are competing for the attention of females但这并非总能为你吸引来关注的目光But it dosen't always pay to draw too much attention to youself中国池鹭是个饕餮掠食者The Chinese Pond Heron is a crapulous predator就算在耕作过的稻田中央Even in the middle of a ploughed paddy field也会上演喙与爪的血腥剧目<i>nature is red in beak and claw或许这看上去像一场屠杀This may look like a slaughter但每只池鹭一次只能吞噬一只蛙but as each heron can swallow only one frog at a time此时剩余的多数派得以逃生并获得了明日再度高歌的机会the vast majority will escape to croak another day元阳县这样广泛种植水稻的Terrace paddies like those of YunYang county are found across much of southern China梯田横贯中国南部This whole vast landscape is dominated by rice cultivation苗族人在炎热的贵州发展了高度发达的水稻种植In heated Guizhou province the Miao minority have developed a remarkable rice culture苗族人把木屋建立在陡峭低产的山壁上With every inch of fertile land given over to rice cultivation用其余每寸丰饶的土地来种植水稻the Miao build their wooden houses on the steepest and least productive hillsides所有东西在中国农村都自有其用处In Chinese rural life everything has a use牛棚里的肥料在太阳下晒干用作煮饭的燃料dried in the sun manure from the cowsheds would be used as cooking fuel中午时分宋家人正饱餐以米和蔬菜为主的中饭It's midday and the Song family aretucking into a lunch of rice and vegetables老祖父宋古永置身于天伦之乐外Oblivious to the domestic chitchat寻思着重要的事情granddad Guyong Song has serious maters on his mind春季是稻禾生长的伊始时节Spring is a start of the rice growing season庄稼的长势决定了来年宋家人的生计the success of the crop will determin how well the family will eat next year因而选择合适的时机进行耕作是至关重要的so planting at the right time is critical时机的选择取决于当年的天气情况The ideal date depends on what the weather will do this year而这些却是永难估料的never easy to predict但是身边就存在着贴心小帮手But there is some surprising help at hand宋家厅堂房梁上的是一对刚从冬季迁徙中归来的金腰燕On the cielling of the Song's living rooma pair of red-rumped swallow newly arrive from their winter migration他们正在为装潢新一年度的宅邸而忙碌is busy fixing up last year's nest在中国动物们被赋予独特的象征意义并被细心呵护In China animals are valued does much for their symbolic meaning as for many good they may do苗族人笃信成双燕终身相伴不离不弃Miao people believe that swallow pairs remain faithful for life因此他们的存在被视为so their presence is a favor and a blessing幸福生活与美满婚姻的象征bringing happiness to a marriage and good luck to a home如大多数苗人一样宋家起居室的窗子可以眺望见成片的梯田Like most Miao dwellings, the Song's living room windows look out over the paddy fields从早春起一扇窗子便为了方便燕子往返穿飞而敞开From early spring, one of these windows is always left open to let the swallows come and go freely古老爹知晓每年燕子归来的确切时间Each year granddad Gu knows the exact day the swallows return苗族人坚信这些鸟儿的归来预示着春季的来临Miao people believe the birds arrival predicts the timing of a season ahead然而今年他们姗姗来迟This year, they were late因而古老爹和其他族中长老一致认为今年的插秧应当推迟so Gu and the other community elders have agreed that rice planting should be delayed accordingly当苗族人为了插秧而整备田地时As the Miao prepare their fields for planting燕子们或搜集修整巢穴用的泥巴the swallows collect mud to repair their nests或穿越新耕的稻田追逐昆虫and chase after insects across the newly ploughed paddies最终经过了几周的准备Finally, after weeks of preparation这个预定种植的时刻来临了the ordained time for planting has arrived首先秧苗必须从苗床上连根拔起but first the seedlings must be uproot from the nursery beds扎成捆移植到高处山地and bundled up ready to be transported to their new paddy那崭新的苗床上higher up the hillside宋家邻里乡亲全员出动帮助移植All the Song's neighbors have turned out to help with the transplanting这是一直来他们的集体协作方式It's how the community has always worked当然一旦时刻来临宋家人也会做出相同行为来报恩when the time comes, the Songs will return the favor当农户们忙碌在田埂间时While the farmers are busy in the fields飞燕们则衔着修整巢穴的材料来来往往the swallows fly back and forth with material for their nest人多力量大Many hands make light work插秧的整个过程只持续了仅一个多小时planting the new paddy takes a little more than an hour当工作完成农户们得以休息Job done, the villagers can relax至少在明天来临之前at least until tomorrow然而对这些筑巢的飞鸟而言修筑家园的宏大工程But for the nesting swallows, the work of raising a family才刚刚开始has only just begun新耕种的田地里In the newly planted fields白鹭在寻找食物little egrets hunt for foods稻田成了虫鱼蝌蚪的乐园The rice paddy harbor tadpoles fish and insects而白鹭正好以此哺育幼鸟and egrets have chicks to feed重庆自然保护区建立于年This colony in Chongqing province is established in当成群的鸟儿安家在阳光村后方的小竹林when a few dozen birds build nests in thebamboo grove behind YanGuang village当地人将其视为幸运的使者Believing they were assigned of luck他们最初小心保护这些白鹭和他们的栖息地local people initially protected the egrets and the colony grove但当村长病重后他们的态度发生了转变But their attitude change when the head of the village fell ill当政府开始介入保护鸟群时They blame the birds and were all set to destroy their nests他们开始敌视鸟群并着手摧毁巢穴when the local government stepped in to protect them易弯曲的竹子或许并非安家的最佳场所Bendy bamboo may not be the safest nesting place但至少这些小家伙们不会成为捕食者的腹中餐but at least these youngsters won't end up at someone's dinner这些小家伙刚从母亲嘴里分得美食These chicks have just had a meal delivered by their mom对新生的小嘴着实是一大挑战quite a challenge for litter beaks介于他们的栖息地是受保护的Providing their colonies are protected像白鹭这样的候鸟是少数直接从发达的水稻种植中获益的鸟类wading birds like egrets are among the few wild creatures which benefit directly from intensive rice cultivation水稻生长需要大量的水Growing rice needs lots of water但即便是在多雨的南方有些土地也面临缺水的危机but even in the rainy south, there are landscapes where water is surprisingly scarce相当于法国和西班牙国土加起来那么大This vast area of southwest China的中国西南的广阔土地the size of France and Spain combined因为宛如被干燥中空的谷地隔离开来的巨大蛋盒般is famous for its clusters of conical hills连绵的锥形山脉而闻名于世like giant upturned egg cartonseperated by dry empty valleys这就是喀斯特地貌This is the karst石灰石地貌俨然成为南部中国的标志性特征a limestone terrain which has become the defining image of southern China喀斯特地貌通常以突起的裸岩状态分布Karst landscapes are oftenstudded with rocky outcrops这迫使当地农民只得在破碎的小块土地上耕作forcing local farmers to cultivate tiny fields当地人是中国最贫穷的居民之一The people who live hereare among the poorest in China在毗邻的云南省In neighboring Yunnan province遍布着石灰石limestone rocks have taken over entirely这就是著名的石林This is the famous Stone Forest无数年侵蚀作用的产物the product of countless years of erosion造就了无数的狭道与巅峰producing a maze of deep gullets and sharp-edged pinnacles石灰石有一个独性那就是能被雨水分解Limestone has a strange property that is dissolves in rain water在数千年的漫长光阴中水的侵蚀深入到岩床的心脏地带Over many thousands of years, water has corrode its way deep into the heart of the bedrock itself这一自然奇观成为了著名的旅游景点This natural wonder has a famous tourist spot每年的访客数量多达万人receiving close to million visitors each year中国人特别喜好奇形怪状的岩石The Chinese are fond of curiously shaped rocks并以为嶙峋怪石冠上千奇百怪的名字为乐and many have been given fanciful names但没人来猜测这个块怪石的名字No prices for guessing what this one is called但百闻不如置身这片奇妙山地亲身一见But there is more to this landscapethan meets the eye在中国醒目的喀斯特地貌下China has literally thousands of mysterious caverns隐匿着无数的神秘洞穴concealed beneath the visible landscape of the karst这些隐秘世界大多不为世人所知Much of this hidden world has never been seen by human eyes而现在他们将被展现在世人眼前And it's only just now being explored奇险洞穴中再现了一场终极的探险For a growing band of intrepid young Chinese explorers主角是一群日渐成长初生牛犊般的年轻探险家caves represent the ultimate adventure探索一个洞穴犹如一场穿越时空的探险Exploring a cave is like taking the journey through time常年积水叮咚伴随着无止境般的旅途a journey which endless raindrops would have followed over countless centuries水滴潺潺落下Fed by countless drips and trickles地下河流深切入岩the subterranean river carves ever deeper into the rock石灰岩河床将洞穴的河道分割成千沟万壑The cave river's course is channeled by the beds of limestone石灰岩薄弱处被河水冲刷差距的陡坡处水量激增A weakness in the rock can not allow the river to increase its gradient flowrate为洞穴探险带来相当的挑战providing a real challenge for the cave explorers水流到达地下水位后便停止下流The downward rushes halted when the water table is reached这里缓缓流动的河流切割出一条圆形隧道Here the slow flowing river carves tunnels with a more rounded profile这静谧的世界是穴居鱼的家This tranquil world is home to specialized cave fishes比如无目金鲃like the eye-less Golden Barb中国或许拥有地球上种类最为繁多的China may have unique kinds of cave evolved fishes洞穴进化鱼than anywhere else on Earth在地下水位线Above the water table远古洞穴溢满的河水中充斥着石笋和钟乳石ancient caverns abandoned by the river slowly fill up with stalactites and stalagmites含有沉积物的水流Stalactites form as trickling water deposites tiny quantities of rock在千万年间“滴水成石”over hundreds or thousands of years含有石灰质的水滴落石床形成石笋Stalagmites grow up where lime laid and drips hit the cave floor迄今为止被探索发掘的中国洞穴是中国大地上的九牛一毛So far, only a fraction of China's caves have been thoroughly prospected而被发掘的洞穴不断为我们展现地底奇观and caves are constantly discovering new subterranean marvels许多在后来被开发成了商业景点many of which are subsequently developed into commercial show caves探索者沿着洞穴河流出山谷的轨迹逃离了黑暗Finally escaping the darkness在远离出发地的河谷the cave river and its human explorers emerge in a valley far from where their journey began这场冒险拉上了帷幕or now the adventure is over源自洞穴河流Rivers which issue from caves为喀斯特地区提供了生命之泉are the key to survival in the karst country贵州的垂直峡谷This vertical gorge in Guizhou province成为了当地野生动物的密集焦点is a focal point for the region's wildlife这是世界上最珍稀的灵长类之一This is one of the world's rarest primates白颊黑叶猴Francois's langur在中国他们只残存于两个南部省份In China, they survive in just two southern provinces贵州与广西Guizhou and Guangxi多半栖息于崎岖的石灰岩地貌地带always in ragged limestone terrains正如大多数猴子一样他们是社会性生物Like most monkeys, they're social creatures并且他们乐于耗费大把时间为彼此整理仪容and spend a great deal of time grooming each other叶猴是个不折不扣以嫩芽、嫩叶、水果为食的素食主义者Langurs are essentially vegetarian with a diet of buds, fruits, and tender young leaves叶猴宝宝裹着姜黄色的毛发出生Babies are born with ginger fur这些毛发随着生长逐渐从尾部开始变成黑色which gradually turns black from the tail end叶猴宝宝虎钳般的爪Young infants have a vise-like grip帮助他们附着在妈妈身上以保证安全used for cling on to mom for dare life随着年龄的增长As they get older他们越发胆大，并开始常识更多刺激they get bolder and take more risks这些是经历诸多冒险后的幸存者Those have survive spend a lot of time travelling尽管经验丰富的成年叶猴深知Yet experienced adults know exactly where to find seasonal food到守备范围内不同区域的哪里去寻觅当季的食物in different parts of their range在如此陡峭的地带In such steep terrain旅途顺利包含了高超的攀爬技巧travel involves a high level of climbing skill这些猴子打会走路起就是卓越的攀岩专家These monkeys are spectacularly good rock climbers from the time they learnt to walk叶猴族群In langur society是母系社会females rule the roost并且是举家迁徙的领队人物and take the lead when the family is on the move峭壁一侧One section of cliff分泌的水是富含矿物质的woops is a trickle of mineral-rich water这对猴子们而言是不可抗拒的诱惑which the monkeys seem to find irresistible如今麻阳河自然保护区已鲜有危及猴宝宝的捕食者These days there are few predators in the Mayanghe Reserve which might pose a risk to baby monkey然而在过去的数个世纪but in past centuries, this area of south China中国南部的这个地区是豹子巨蟒甚至老虎的家was home to leopards, pythons, and even tigers为了在暗夜潜行者的利爪下存活To survive dangerous night prowlers叶猴们前往地底the langurs went underground用他们的高超的攀爬技巧爬到洞穴上方寻找庇护所using their rock climbing skills to seek shelter in inaccessible caverns夜视镜在近乎黑暗的坏境下记录下Filmed in near darkness using a night vision camera叶猴一家爬上了the troop clambers along familiar ledges被数代猴族磨蚀光润的石壁的情景worn smooth by generations before them当冬日寒冷来袭During cold winter weather猴子们则冒险潜入the monkeys venture deeper underground空气相对保持温暖的地下where the air stays comparatively warm旅途的终点At last, journeys end,高悬的庇护所使得最激进的捕食者都束手无策a coated niche beyond the reach of even the most enterprising predator并非只有猴子们在洞穴中寻找遮蔽But it's not just monkeys that find shelter in caves这些孩子们刚放学These children are off to school在中国农村每天早上都意味着一段In rural China, that may mean a long trek each morning穿越一两个洞穴的艰苦跋涉passing through a cave or two on the way然而并非所有孩子都要徒步上学But not all pupils have to walk to school这些孩子是寄宿生These children are boarders当孩子们快要到达学校时As the day pupils near journey's end住宿生还在做早饭the boarders are still making breakfast校园内仿若被关掉了灯一般黑暗In the school yard, someone seems to have switched the lights off但这里其实并没有正规的操场But this is no ordinary play ground以及正规的学校and no ordinary school只不过是座Its house洞穴中的房屋而已inside a cave天然拱顶阻隔了雨水A natural vault of rock keeps out the rain为教室省去了屋顶so there is no need for a roof on the classroom中东洞穴学校由六个班级Zhongdong cave school is made up of classes共名学生组成with a total of children如同这所学校般这个洞穴住宅区As well as a school, the cave houses families是户人家和他们牲畜的聚居地together with their livestock这或许是世界上唯一在洞穴中饲养的牛了This could be the only cave dwelling cows on Earth放学后是游戏的时间With school work over, it's play time at last在中国南方洞穴不仅用于遮蔽In southern China, caves aren't just used for shelter他们也能为当地人带来恩惠they can be a source of revenue for the community数代的人持续受到洞穴的恩泽People have been visiting this cave for generations洞穴地底覆盖了满满鸟粪The cave floor is covered in guano仅仅十分钟时间就能让农人满载而归so plentiful that minutes' work can fill these farmer's baskets 这是一种宝贵的天然肥料This used as a valuable source of fertilizer鸟粪的源头能听到河水上空的鸟鸣A clue to the source of the guano can be heard above the noise of the river噪音因为山洞而被放大The sound originates high up in the roof of the cave入口处聚满了雨燕The entrance is full of swifts他们是社交性动物They are very sociable birds约多的共享贵州南部的洞穴more than , of them share this cave in southern Guizhou province中国最大的雨燕栖息地The biggest swift colony in China如今中国的家燕多数将巢穴建在建筑物的屋顶These days, Chinese house swiftsmostly nest in the roofs of buildings但其实在房屋被发明出来之前but rock crevasses like these were their original home这样的岩缝才是他们原本安家的地方long before houses were invented尽管雨燕依靠洞穴遮蔽Though the swifts depend on the cave for shelter他们却必定在日落前归巢they never stray further than the limits of daylight因为他们的眼睛无法在黑夜中看清事物as their eyes can't see in dark然而洞穴深处However, deep inside the cavern是一群更适应地下are the creatures are better equipped隐秘生活的居民for subterranean life一群蝙蝠刚刚醒来A colony of bats is just waking up他们运用超声波在黑夜中确定自己的方位using ultrasonic squeaks to orientate themselves in the darkness夜晚是狩猎时间Night is the time to go huntingRickett鼠耳蝠是亚洲蝙蝠中唯一Rickett's mouse-eared bat is the only bat in Asia which specializes in catching fishes通过在水面依靠声波对涟漪的反射追踪游鱼的蝙蝠种tracking them down from the sound reflection of ripples on the water surface这种非凡的技巧仅在数年前被发现This extraordinary behavior was only discovered in the last couple of years现在首次被记录下来展示给世人and has never been filmed before如果说在黑暗中追捕游鱼是如此的不可思议If catching fish in the dark is impressive想象下倒挂状态下不用爪子吞食滑溜溜的米诺鱼是怎样的神奇场景imagine eating a slippery minnow with no hands while hanging upside down拂晓降临至桂林的喀斯特山地Dawn, over the karst hills of Guilin这些山地的嶙峋奇秀归功于These remarkable hills owe their peculiar shapes漓江那弱酸性的水质to the mildly acid waters of the Li River亿万年的侵蚀褪去了他们的本来面目whose meandering course over eons of time has corrode away their basis只剩下坚硬的河道残留下来until only the rocky course remained漓江是中国最清澈的河流之一Li is one of the cleanest rivers in China是捕鱼者和他们训练有素的鸬鹚最爱的捕获点a favorite spot for fishermen with their trained cormorants这帮七八十岁的男人全部姓黄The men, all called Huang, come from the same village他们来自同一个村落now in their seventies and eighties他们毕生都以捕鱼卫生they've been fishermen all their lives在释放鱼鸟之前Before they release the birds他们在鸟的脖子上松松的系一条套索they tie a noose, loosely around the neck以防止鸟儿私自将捕到的鱼吞进肚子里to stop them swallowing any fish they may catch伴随着即兴的舞蹈，黄老汉鼓励着他的鸟儿们跳入水中Chancing and dancing, the Huangs encourage their birds to take the plunge在水下Underwater鸬鹚的狩猎本能暴发the cormorant's hunting instinct kicks in他们化身为水下的游鱼追踪导弹turning them into fish seeking missiles一只鸬鹚小分队搭档合作齐心协力Working together,一早上便能收获颇丰a good cormorant team can catch a couple of dozen decent-sized fish in a morning鸟儿们被训练过只能带着鱼儿回到筏子The birds return to the raft with their fish because they've been trained to do so从出生的那一刻起From the time it first hatched鸬鹚们就开始被训练为忠仆each of these cormorants has been reared to a life of obedience to its master这些鸟儿是高效的奴隶The birds are, in effect, slaves但是它们并不是白痴But they are not stupid据说鸬鹚能够记住它们捕获的鱼的数目It's said the cormorants can key the tally of the fish they catch至少能记住七条at least up to seven除非它们不时得到打赏当然这不过是收回一点自己的劳动成果罢了So unless they get a reward now and then,they simply withdraw their labor渔夫理所当然得把最好的鱼留给自己The fishermen of course keep the best fish for themselves鸬鹚则能享受剩余的部分The cormorants get the leftover tiddlies项圈摘除后鸟儿们终于能享用它的战利品了With its collar removed，the bird can at last swallow its prize最美妙的莫过于得到额外的打赏Best of all,when it isn't meant to have...而如今现代捕鱼技术的激烈竞争These days,competition for modern fishing techniques意味着使黄老汉已不能仅靠鸬鹚捕鱼这一传统的手段谋生了means the Huangs can't make a living from traditional cormorant fishing alone 这一流传了多年的传统And this -year old tradition如今只能成为取悦游客的表演is now practiced mostly to entertain tourists但在贵州省附近的草海湖上But on Caohai lake in nearby Guizhou Province一种与众不同的捕鱼业正在蓬勃发展an even more unusual fishing industry is alive and well庚钟胜正在去为夜间布网的路上Geng Zhongsheng is on his way to set out his net for the night老庚的怪网是一种一头扎起来的管状装置Geng's net is a strange tubular contraption with a closed off end上百渔夫依靠这个More than a hundred fishermen make their living from the lake水质富矿的高产湖泊为生Its mineral-rich waters are highly productive并在此布下天罗地网and there are nets everywhere第二天清早老耿和他的儿子回来收获他们猎物The next morning, Geng returns with his son to collect his catch乍看之下收获平平At first sight, it looks disappointing小鱼.虾米.和扭个不停的虫子Tiny fishes, lots of shrimps, and some wriggling bugs然而老耿看上去来并不那么消沉Geng doesn't seem too down hearted大鱼被保持存活The larger fish are kept alive这是唯一在酷暑下保鲜的办法the only way they'll stay fresh in the heat令人吃惊的是一些虫子也被专门挑捡出来Surprisingly, some of the bugs are also singled out for special treatment它们是蜻蜓的幼虫They are the young stage of dragonflies以蠕虫和蝌蚪为食的掠食者predators that feed on worms and tadpoles这里是世界上蜻蜓卵收获最丰的地方Nowhere else in the world are dragonfly nymphs harvested like this回到家后老耿把他的获物在屋顶上摊开晒干Back home, Geng spreads his catch on the roof to dry在中国，但凡能吃的东西都不会被浪费It's being in China, nothing edible would be wasted在遥远的南方有这样一种说法There is a saying in the far south“长腿的唯桌子不吃"We will eat anything with legs, except a table;长翅膀的独飞机不啃”and anything with wings, except a plane."几个钟头后这些晒干了的昆虫便会被带到市场上卖掉Within a few hours, the dried insects are ready to be backed up and taken to market其中蜻蜓蛹能卖到最好的价格Its the dragonfly nymphs that fetch the best price幸运的是草海的蜻蜓资源非常丰富且高速再生Fortunately, Caohai's dragonflies are abundant and fast breeding所以老耿和其他的渔民远不会危及它们的数量so Geng and his fellow fishermen have so far had little impact on their numbers但绝非所有野生动物都这样生机勃勃But not all wildlife is so resilient这所上海附近的佛庙This buddhist temple near Shanghai有一段与之相关的传奇故事has an extraordinary story attached to it年月In May一支狂野中国摄制组在这所寺庙的鱼塘里A Wild China camera team filmed this peculiar Swinhoe's turtle拍摄到了这只罕见的斑龟in the temple's fishpond据寺庙的和尚所说这只龟在明朝期间被赐予寺庙According to the monks, this turtle had been given to the temple during the Ming dynasty至今已有余年历史了over years ago它被认为是地球上最老的动物It was thought to be the oldest animal on Earth软壳龟被很多从中国人视为神赐的馈赠Soft shell turtles are considerd a god-made delicacy by many Chinese在被记录下的时候and when it was filmed它已是中国仅存的三只斑龟之一this was one of just three Swinhoe's Turtles left alive in China他的同胞们The rest of its kind被当作食物剿杀殆尽having been rounded up and eaten悲痛人心的是在拍摄后的短短几周后Sadly, just a few weeks after filming这只远古的生物与世长辞了this ancient creature died。